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George Sulton, Famous Billiardist, Becomes Greal Player Without Hands
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Veteran’s Hands Off at Wrists,
Other Men, With Missing Arms
or Legs, Became Famous.
By O. B. Keeler.
OW bobs into the spotlight once
N more a famous old celebrity,
George Sutton, a man who has
been a pePennial phenomenon to me
. __ ever since I learn
oy s ed that the type
H % ¢ of billiards known
;g " as 18.2 was one of
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K s}?. ST E S hard to play
ARECS : 4 good game of
s"’ é%'@ : 18.2 as it is to
] %%éé ¢ play bridge well
i o S enough to please
1 ‘%k"mi WS the drummer who
4 ‘~( g picks you out asa
“ partner for a Pull
man combat. It is as hard as getting
the sleeves of a home-knit sweater in
the right placed,
And George Sutton not only is a
good 18.2 billiard player, but every
now and then he is the best in the
world—a, champion at his own game.
And G. §Sutton (listen)! G. Sutfon
hasn't g§t any hands. Not a hand.
Off at thé wrists. All two of them. |
Not long ago George Sutton, play
ing a match with a regular two-l
handed guy, Welker Cochran, ran up |
a string of 113 peints in a row. If
You ever tackled any of the 18.2 stuff
You know what that means. ‘
George Had the Stuff.
Well, and how does he do it? Just
does. George Sutton lost both hands
when a child in an encounter with a
buzz saw. He surely must have had |
it in him to be a champion, but the |
fact that it should be at billiards, of
all games requiring the most firm and
delicate touch. * * * Have you
ever watched the cue hand of a good
billiard shot, and noted the_ infinite
delicacy of his finger 2rip on the cue?
And George Efitton has to clamp
the cue between the stumps of his
wrists and shoot with a double fore
arm motion.
No use going on to praise the pa- ‘
tience and cold gameness that raised
old George Sutton to his high place in |
the billiard world. If you ever shot !
billiards ‘or pool you don’t need to be |
told how useful the hands are. When |
you say a man became a champion |
billiard plaver WITHOUT HA,\‘DS.I
there is nothing much to add. But,
Lord! how that man must have prac
ticed! !
Sutton's achievement is reminiscent
of other men who have made good in
the realm of sport, and of athletic
sport, under the handicap of missing
arms or legs or eyes, or something.
Possibly vou have seen Kilpatrick,
the one-lezged bicyelist, who a-num
ber of years ago was one of the most
daring trick riders who ever lived.
He looped the loop and did a lot of
thinzs that riders witn all their legs
didn't care to tackle. ]
Right here in Atlanta last fall you
probably saw the Tech football team
in action, and if so you saw a big
chap named Fincher kicking a mess
of goals after touchdown. Well,
Fincher kicked more goals than any
other man in ‘the United States last
season-——directing his deadly accurate
shots with only one eye. And you
probably noticed that he did quite a
bit of other playing that in no way
betrayed the fact that he was blind
on one side. =
Old Mordecai Brown.
In baseball, Mickey Coyle, first
baseman for Chattanooga, did pretty
well with a glove hand on which he
could not straighten the fingers—they
had been drawn into a folded position
at the second joint by an electric
shock, but Mickey was a pretty good
first-sacker at that. Mordecai Brown,
famous pitcher of the Chicago Cubs
‘when they were winning pennants
and world championships, had lost
the index finger of his pitching hand
in a mining accident, and he pitched
#0 well with that maimed flipper that it
got to be a stock witticisin among the
fans that Manager So-and-So was
planning to “prune” his pitchers in
the off season, so they could pitch
like Miner Brown.
Two deaf and dumb ball players
became famous—Dummy~” Taylor, a
pitcher for the New York Giants, and
Dummy Hoy, the remarkable outfield
ing star of the old Cincinnati club.
Hoy’s success is all the more won
derful from the fact that an gutfielder
is accustomed to judge t*istance
of a wallop largely by the®und of
the blow. Hoy was forced to work
without this help, yet his accuracy of
judgment was almost uncanny. In
the Southern League about fourteen
years ago there was a catcher named
Leamann, with Shreveport, who was
afflicted with the St. Vitus dance. He
would bounce around and twitch
dreadfully while the pitcher was get
ting ready to deliver the ball, but al
ways managed to steady himself in
time to receive it.
In Zolf we have at least one profes
sional ‘with only one arm, Louis Mar
tucci. And Chick Evans says one of
his hardest matches was agalnst this
player, in Purope. Chick won by the
margin of a single hole, and Martucci
shot a fine 73 for the round. In Scot
lJand there are a number of one
legged players, ~ne of them a “pro” of
considerable ability. In Atlanta W.
T . Gentry, one-armed and elderly,
plays a good, consistent game and en
joys the sport as much as anybody.
Fly Needs Hands.
Perhaps these and other examples
serve to show that after all the soul
of a man is of more importance than
the conventional number of arms and
leizs. Still, T try never to draw mor
h?i——nnd in any event I do not belteve
a Human Fly could ¢limb skyscrapers
without anv hands. But I wouldn’t
have thought a man could be a cham
hion billiard shot without hands,
either. '
oss of Arms Small Handicap to Sutton
Fought Uphill Battle to Championship
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GEORGE SUTTON is shown here making a masse shot. Although his arms were cut off just be
low the elbow when he was a youngster. This handicap did not stifle his ambition to play
billiards. Adthough a good wrist motion was said to be imperative to become a good player, he
§ defied this edi:t and won the American title. Recently he made a run of 113 at the 18.2 balk line
{ game. |
{ . Sutton is one of the most remarkable figures in American sporting circles, and surely the
E most interesting. He is especially strong on the masse shot and is a wizard on imparting the pe
¢ culiar spin to the billiards. 2
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; ‘Pros’ Are Easy for
. Good Gollege Team
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% HARLEY BRICKLEY, who
§ C played three' games last
5 year with the professional
) Massillon (Ohio) eleven, declares
{ that any good college team can
‘\beat a good “pro” combination.
¢ The collegians have a defihite
é scheme of attack and work in con
cert, while the professionals very
often have no signals unti! they
come on the field.
; Brickley says: “You can not
) compare the two styles of play.
{ There is quite a difference be
! tween playing for money and for
a college. The game is the same,
) nevertheles: “e ‘pros’ do not
i have the s ~ play of a
well drilled :ven. The
men do not pi. .to speak of.
Some of them do not see each oth
er until the day of the game.
“Then they try to master a set
of signals and work out a plan. If
they can get together before the
5 time for starting the 3ame to de
%vg‘op interference and the other
! requisites that combine fio make a
égood team they show what an ag
! gregation of stars can do.
Be + :
AMHERST, MASS., Jan. 26.—The
football schedule for Amherst College
has been approved by the Student
Council. Trinity and Bowdoin, two of
Amherst’'s old rivals, reappear on the
schedule, which. follows:
September 28, Middlebury, at Am
herst: October 5, Bowdoin, at Amherst;
October 12, Union, at Schenectady, N.
Y.: October 19, Worgester Polytechnic
Institute, at Amherst; October 26, Wes.
leyan, at Middletown; November 2, Co
lumbia, at New York; November 9,
Trinity, at Amherst; November 16, Wil.
liams, at Ambherst.
Why Cy Williams
y Cy Willia
CHICAGO, Jan. 26.—Fred Mitchell did
not part with Outfielder Williams be
cause he figured Williams wasn’t good
H(e:nobugh to hold a regular job with the
übs.
In trading Williams for Dode Paskert,
Mitchell got a player he needed badly—
a right-handed hitting outfielder. Wil
liams swings from the port side of the
platter, as do Flack and Woiter. Mitch
ell is taking no chances of being too
‘late in rounding out his team and bol
stering up his batting order.
HEARST’'S SUNDAY AMERICAN' . A Newspaper for People Who Think — \ SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1918.
SPORTS
THE WESK'S WASH.
Although there but littie coal to
.. spaye, -
The boxing manager, without a care,
Goes ambling on his warm but
coalless way, =
For he is always full of heated air.
Why doesn’t old Doc Garfield find a
way
To curb Jack Curley and his glad
array?
They waste enough of torrid at
mosphere
To heat the v&:rld forever and a day.
Fred Fulton pulled a ‘flivver in St.
Paul,
The same old line of bunk, the same
old stall, :
But when he pulls the ancient dope
again
The public, as per usual, will fall.
This Fulton person seems in great
distress
Because he can not start a fight with
Jess, N
And yet I think he would have heart
disease
If Willard were to smile and answer,
- eres"'
A hundred thousand dollars for a
fight!
A hundred thousand sheckels, round
and bright!
\ soldier, drawing thirty bones per
m(z'xth.
Sits in trench and sadly says,
“Good night!”
"Jheyenne‘ Wyoming, gained the Hall
of Fame
By dabbling in the pugilistic game.
Squash Hollow, Tombstone, Red
.Dog and the like
Will now bestir”themselves and do
the same.
Full many a hamlet wakens from its
nap
And offers half a million for a scrap.
Although it doesn’t cost a goldarn
cent,
It shows the world the town is on the
map. :
One werk have I been flat upon my
. spine,
With shackles on this ailing hoof of
mine.
One fleeting week, although it
seems to me
That I've been here since 1849,
fiEEK TO STOP RACING.
ANNAPOLIS, MD., Jan. 26.-+Bills_for
the abolishment of race tracks in Ma
ryland were introduced in both houses
of the Legislature. They are identical
with_the bills defeated after a hard
fight® two years ago.
( . '
Huggins Gets Out
0f Cyclone’s Path
EVERAL years ago when
S Milier Huggins first man
aged the Cardinals a cy
cline hit Columbus, Ga., where
his team was in training. The
Cards were billeted in a rickety
old hotel that threatened to give
way before the elements. As the
building rocked in the cyclone
Magee, Evans, Oakes and a num
ber of other players rushed down
several flights of stairs to the
hotel lobby.
When the storm had passed—it
blew the roof from the hotel—
the players were returning up
{ stairs when they met Huggins.
“Where was you?” asked Evans.
“Hiding in the closet,” replied
Huggins.
He had stayed on the top floor
during the entire subtropical
storm.
Duke Farrell Quits
NEW YCRK, Jan. 19.—Duke Farrell,
coach and scout for the Yankees the
past several seasons, has severed his
connection with the club. So far Mil
ler Huggins has not named a suceessor
to the Duke.
Friends of Dan Howley, manager of
the Montreal club, of the Intérnational
League, for the last five years, have
suggested him for the position. How
ley is a smart baseball man, particu
larly vigorous and peppery on the
coaching lines. As a runming mate for
Huggins, it might be poluiule for “Dan
tc help precipitate a littfe color to the
work of the Yankees. This is one com.
modity of which the local American
Leaguers ha.ve'a.lways been most sadly
lackirg.
NEW YORK, Jan. 28.-—A! the profits
of the Westminster Kennel Club’s for
ty-second annual dog show, to be held
in Madison SBquare Garden, February
20, 21, 22 and 23, will be donated to the
American Red Cross.
The premium lists have been issued
and bear the seal of the national war
charity and its emblem. The war has
forced some curtailments in classes,
notaply In those for English fox
hound, through the military activities
of owners, but in the magnitude of
the undertakjng the fixture will be
again the forgmost exhibition of dogs.
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Veteran Indian Twirled Fine Ball
During Latter Part of 1917 and
Expected To Do Comeback.
S S
] EW YORK, Jan, 19.—01 e Chief
h Hender, the weatherbeaten vet
“run of many tough camboaigns
dnder the big tops, may*be the pit(‘h-‘
ing mains av of 'he Phillies next swa-|
son
With i over Alexander gone to lhe‘!
Cubs, Eppa River liahle to service in
the army, and joe ‘ecchger an un
known quantity so fir as military
status is concerned Pui M rar ma
be forced to look to the old hronzed
chief to lead the attack frony the
pitcher's box. :
Baseball is so full of Whcertainties
and especially in thesé parlous times,
that it will not be surprising to see
Bender playing the role of the lead
ing sharpshooter in the Philly
trenches, and if the old boy shows the
kind of stuff he displayed to National
League batsmen during the latter part
of the 1917 campaign he may loom up
~once more in the spotlight as a star
who has come back. ';g
| Bender hooked up with the Phillies
in 1916, and got inta 27 games of ball,
-but he did not have the stuff that he
had in the old Mackian days, by a
’lnng shot, and he wound up the sea
son with a poor record. His record
was so poor that Manager Moran was
not warranted in keeping him on the
'club roster, so he handed the Chippe
wa his release. '
- For a time last season Bender dub
| heg around, pitching for semipro nines
In'Pennsylvania and Maryland. He
~would pitch one or two games a week
iand he made a comfortable little wad
of dough doing it, though nothing like
the salary he used ‘to earn. Finally,
with the season about half gone. the
Chief started to show up at the Phil
lies’ park to piteh to the batters in
practice, and one day he went to Mo
'ran with a request for another trial.
Foxy Pat had heen watching the In
dian out of the corner of his eye when
he pitched in batting session&, and he
agreed, to give Bender one more trial.
So the Chief signed a contract and
went to work again.
~ Then began a great comeback, The
Chief proceeded to hang up a string
of victories, and he accomplished the
feat of pitching three straight shut
outs. His work helped the Phils
greatly in their dash after the pace
making Giants. He proved to the
satisfaction of Moran that he had
I(‘nme back, and that he was leaving
l the “merly mucilage” alone.
Bender may not be able to put the
Phillies in another pennant race. He
may not be able to win as many
games as a lot of the high-salaried
istars. but if he stays away from the
joy stuff he will be able to hold on to
a good job with Pat Moran, and that's
something. g
American Pitch
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—American
League pitchers had a mighty good
par.
)vahe 1917 averages show an Increase
in pitching effectiveness over 1916, and
whether or not trick deliveries are re
sponsible, the fact remains that the
heavers in the Johnson circuit ure get
ting harder to beat as the season rolls
on.
As con’pared to 1916 there were twen
ty-four pitchers in the American League
who allowed less than two and one-half
runs per nine Innings, against seven
teen in 1916. And eight hurlers gave up
less than two runs per game, against
five who held opponents to less than a
pair of markers in the 1916 campaign.
Loud yells against tricks of pitching,
such as Fddie Cicotte's mythical ‘‘shine
ball,” are heard nearly every season,
but while at least one pitcher—and usu
ally a consistent winner—is made the
target for criticism, it is pretty gener
ally agreed that the best of the pitcn
ers today are better than the to&nol(:h—
--ers of a few years ago, and this solu
tion sounds like a logical one.
As long as the spitball is allowed to
live the pitchers are going to have an
edge on the batters. The sgilter is a
regular ghost ball when a hurler has
the proper control of it. It does a lot
of weird things as it comes floating l‘lf
to the plate, and when mixed up with
an assortment of food ‘‘hooks’” and a
change of pace it ld(;.ertalnly an asset
to the man on the mound.
Schalk Discusses
l ‘Baseball Brains’
CHICAGO, Jan. 26.—*A man does not
necessarily need a schoolroom education
to have what we refer to as ‘baseball
brains,”” says Ray Schalk, leading
backstop of the American I,eague.
“I adinit this is the day of the college
player in baseball,” adds Schalk, “and
the better education a man has, all
ther things being equal, the better
glayer he should be. But he might
know a lot of Greek, literature, wave
motion, phrenology, analytical geometry,
metaphysicyg and ufmilar subjects and
still be absolutely a frost on a ball or
the hit-and-run.
‘“Ty Cobb has the ideal baseball
brains, but Ty isn’'t a college man. On
the other hand, I used to play in the
minors with a graduate of a well-known
university who was a brilliant scholar
and a good natural athlete. But he was
positively the limif in playing baseball.
He woufd do the most incomprehensi
ble things. In fact, he was impossible.”
.
Michigan May St
ANN ARBOR. MICH,, ~-Jan. 26—
Chances for Michigan's track team tak
ing part in any Eastern meet thig spring
are not considered bright. It would not
be surprising, acording to university au
|thorltlel, if no big meets were held in
|th° Bast. Information received here in.
dicate that Cormell, Swarthmore and
| Penn State will close much eariler than
usual this year, if the war is still on
in May. Michigan's track team already
has been riddled by enlistments. Mich
igan has a strong conference schedule
and will send a team to the athletic
carnival of the University of Illinois at
Urbana on March 2\
PRSI I P
Hendricks Only Newcomer
HE National League race of 1917
I was more or less of a walk-
Away for the Giants. But Mc-
Graw, rather than the various other
managers of his company, is being
held responsible for the fact in the
minds of the club owners at large.
There has been only one mahnagerial
switeh, in the Tener circuit, among
the eight leaders that brought their
teams throygh the final drive of the
Xut campaign, and_that through a
pirit of generosity, Mot necesgity.
Jack iHendricks, highly Sl!(!(!flflful
in the minors, has succeeded to the
most successful administration of
Miller Huggins with the Cardinals.:
St. Louis llnquished its claim to
Huggins or:fir that he might benefit
himself as a prospective Moses to
lead the Yankees out of the wilder
ness.
McGraw is, has been and doubtless,
will continue to be the Little Napol
eon ol the parent major association.
He has that uncanny skill of turning
even reverse into advantage, Sever
al times in kis illustrious and adven
turous career as lKmperor of the Polo
Grounds MeGraw has stood practical-
Iy the sole survivor of a stricken fleld.
It « as 8o on his introduction, when
he tiost came from Baltimore, back in
1900 J 0 assame charge of what ap-
P i Loy el 88 wrack,
M.Graw C . ans House. ¥
McGiaw ok vue ook at the de
bris. and deded Yean house.
Excess baggag 'v the ¢ tent of some
dozen players were canoaed 'he blue
envelope and one ol st by A
strange twist ofsfate, Is_ow geuing
back into the big time il s
of Jack Hendricks. ~
No manager has been more su.
cessful than McGraw. Success =
measured from two viewpoints—that
of the fan and that of the club own
er. The fan has only one gauge, the
pennant emblematic of first position
in the race. McGraw has squared
“both viewpoints, He has pyramided
‘a tremendous fortune for the stock
holders of the National Exhibition
Club, the polite title of the Giants.
His pennants, of course, have helped
toward this end. His career is rich
in pennants. His clubs have won
i(‘hamplonahtps for McGraw in 1904,
1906, 1911, 1912, 1913 and 1917.
‘ Here in McGraw, then, is the great
menace that conignts the seven oth
er team leaders of the National
League as the wheel of time spins
‘another championship season into
view. Mac has stood the acid test
of sivteen scasons, and stands tod
as vigorous as in the first flufl:fi
pennant triumph, llis team is the
| class of its company. ’
~ The real dean of National League
managers is John McGraw. Gearge
Stallings, who stands second in point
of service, did not join the Braves
till 1913. Of course, it must be re
membered that the Big Chief has
been knocking around in the mana
gerial end of the game quite as long
as tMe Little Corporal, though he
has not won 80 consistently in the
big show. 2
Stallings was manager of the Phil
lies years ago. He was manager of
| the Detroit Tigers in 1900 and 1901.
He returned to the American League
lntter a successful career in Buffalo
‘and Newark as leader of Frank ar
rell's Yankees in 1909. Within two
years Stallings built up a hopeless
‘fal’endor into a pennant contender,
but a long standing feud with Ban
‘Johrson forced his sacrifice before
the close of the 1910 campaign. The
‘tcam has been only the Yankees ever
since,
» Stallings's re-entry into the Nation
al in 1913 was crowned almost im
-mediately with fabulous success; his
first two years sped with the rapidity
\a.nd splendor of an escaped Monte
‘Criuto. They earned for him the so
| brlquetl of Miracle Man, even over the
perennial worker of miracles, Mec-
Graw.
'~ Stallings fell heir to a misfit con
‘glnmeratlon of bascball usefulness
whose spirit had been broken through
fifteen years and more of failures.
He showed results the first years, fin
ishing as high as fifth. It was re
Spalding Regretted
Big Baseball Deal
Predictions that Owner Bill Baker, of
the Phillies, is going to rue the day he
sold Alexander apd Killifer to the Cubs
recalls a blg deal of the old days engi
neered by A. G. Spalding.
In 1887 the famous SIO,OOO beauties—
Pitcher John Clarkson and Catcher
Mike Kelly—became involved in a deal
which sent them to the Boston club, a
deal which caused Chicago to lose a
lot of interest in the old White Sox,
and which cast its shadow over base
ball in the Windy City for many years
ufi?rwud.
¢lly and Clarkson, according to old
timers, could not get along with Kd
Williamson, the Chicago shortstop, and
in 1887 Spalding sold Kelly to Boston.
The following year Kelly vecame tne
Boston manager and he soon purchased
Clarkson. This famous ol battery won
more fame in their new surroundings
than they had with Chicago, and Spald
ing was sorry he let them (}{M away.
But it whs too late for shedding tears
at this stage.
And baseball men claim that the fans
of today demand more than they used
to. 8o it looks dark for the Phils in
Philly.
Petit Bret n%illed
In Auto Accid
. In Auto Accident
B BY,
PARIS, Jen. 26.—Petit Breton, the fa
mous (:yu(lr§l champion, who was serv
{;]eg in the Transport Department, has
2en killed. He was driving an auto
mobile near Troyes when it accidentaliy
collided with a butcher's cart. Breton
was thrown out and killed on the spot.
He gained many of the most important
prizes for cyeling in France, and among
his performances abroad earned great
fame in the gix-day grind at Madison
Square Garden, New York.
Qui d Hannibal
QUINCY, ILIL., Jan. 26.—Henry Rei
del, owner of the Hannibal Three lives
League club, announced that he had
made fofmal application for a berth in
the Western league, to place a club
known as the Quincy-Hannibal team
He plans to divide the home games in
Quincy and Hannibal, playing forty in
each city. He will accept a franchise
pn‘)vided Peoria is included in the cir
cnit,
served for 1914 to show one of the
real miracles of the national® past
time’'s history,
Well for Stallings that he clinehed
his “nom de guerre” in 1914, for the
following season was to see the bud
ding of another managerial genius-——
one who still ranks among the great
masters of the game-—in+«Pat Moran,
I'he veteran catcher and coach who
succeeded Dooin as leader of the
Phillies, found a club of only average
talent, which had been split asunder
by discord and dissension. Further
more, he was confronted by the prob.
lem\or rebuilding his fences without
the Bpiritual aid of an exchequer.
Wilbert Robinson, the rotund man
ager-Bf the Brooklyn club, antedates
Moran as a team leader by one scant
year. Wilbert broke into the . big
show as director in chief in 1914, He
had had plenty of experjence at man
aging in the minor leagues, however,
apd was no mean influence toward
the 1911-12-13 successes. of the
(yiants, During those years Robble
acted as first lieutenant to ?c()mw.
Robinson found a club in Brooklyn
quite as ‘demoralized and gone to seed
a 8 that which Stallings encountered
in Boston the previous year, He ap
plied almost as startling remedles.
T.lke Stallings, he finished Afth his
flist year, but uynlike George got no
Mgher than third on his next try.
In 1918, however, Roblnson gave
Brooklyn its first pennant in sixteen
Years,
Robinson's reputation suffered
somewhat as a result of a disastrous
season in 1917, when his pennant
winners of the previous campaign
were able to finish \no higher than
ssventh in an eight-team race, How
evi, the circumstances were most
extenusling.
#.ur Kid Managers.
Theiv ae tour kid managers in the
Nationai i.eagie, from the standpoint
of major cxperienve at least—Ma- |
thewson, Miwchell, Rezdek and Hen- |
dricks, In order or senvice. To be‘
frank, Hendricks hasn’t started as
vet. Bezdek, who su cecded Calla
han at PRittsburg last mid-season, 18
almost as untried, |
Matty, of course, needs no intro
duction, For years his star shone
resplendent as that of McGraw in the
(Glant triumphs. To say that Big Six
as manager of the Cincinnati team
has won the hearts of Rhineland is
paying him quite as tender a com
pliment. For Matty has made good
as leader of the Reds. He took the
team in midseason of 1918, succeed
ing Herzog, so that last year was
practically the first opportunity
(‘hristy had in which to display his
managerial genius, The Old Master
brought his club home to a berth in
the first division.
Mitchell, of the Cubs, has been in
that post only one year. He had lit
tle with which to work~ in 1917,
(Charlie Weeghman this winter, how
ever, has provided him with some
exceptionally clever talent, and the
Windy City should once more take
its accustomed place as the deadly
rival of New York,
The rise to major league fame of
Hugo Bezdek is one of the strangest
stories. = Bezdek never played profes
sional baseball, let alone manage
professional teams. His experience
was confined exclusively to college
teams. He was a baseball anynot-‘
ball star on the University of Chi
éago teams, so good a baseball player
that he received many flattering 01-‘
fers from major league teams.
Jack Hendricks, the new leader of
the Cardinals, has been a successful
minor league manager for the last
twelve years. He broke in with
Springfield, of the Central League,
in 1906, and remained there til! the
end of 1907. The next two years he
was with Fort Wayne, of the same
circuit., In 1910 Hendricks went to
Denver, of the Western League.
There he finished second his first
year and then won three consecutive
pennants. He hag been in Indi"nap
nlis for the last four years, complet
ing his experience there with a 1917
pennant, after finishing third twice
and second once,
. .
%
Putsßoxing in Bad
: LOUISVILLE, Jan. 26.—Packey Mec-
Farland, the famous Chicago glove
slinger, who is a boxing inStructor at
Camp Zachary Taylor, made an inter
esting talk on the ring game, in which
he said:
“A lot of people criticize boxing un
justly. The sport is not in very good
repute in’ a great pumber of sections,
but the boxers themselves are not to
blame.
“Greedy managers and lucre-loving
promoters are responsible for this con
dition. Boxing itself is the manliest of
gports and one of the most beneficlal
exercises,
“'livery boy should be taught how to
defend himself. Such knowledge will
;ulve him confidence dnd aid him vastly
in his career, no matter what occupa
lllun or profession he is to follow.
| “Commercial boxing s almost a
erime dnd betting is a sin that should
Innt be tolerated. It's the commerciai
boxers who fake and stall and ruln the
'spor!.
“let's get together and replace the
nfmr' in the good graces of all and merit
the- confidence of ail. It ¢an be done
and I am willing to go the limit in see
ing that it is done.”
Maddet Will Help
Train Frank Moran
B leste
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—Bartley Mad
den will help eondition Frank Moran
for his 20~round tilt with Fred Fulton
at New Orleans February 22. Madden,
| who recently knecked out Jim Coffey,
|Do agreed to go to Camp ‘Wadgworth
| three weeks before the contest and
work out with Moran every afternoon.
Frank i boxing instructor at Camp
Wadsworth. i
Another importation in the Moran
quarters will probably be ‘‘Professor’’
'l'.’”‘l*l Washington, = faithful colored
rubber, who has beep. with Frank in
most of Jis contests in this country.
Daniel says, ‘“You can’'t let a pow’'ful
man léke Mistuh Moran take chances
wiff stiff muscles.”
McGRAW 1S OPTIMISTIC.
N t Jan. 26.—John J. Me-
Graw declared just before he started
for Havana, Cuba, where he will be a
constant visitor to the golf links, he
had finished his plans for the coming
geason and reiterated his belief that
baseball will have a good year despite
the war, J
Il
Corbett Declares Joe Was One of
the Brainiest Fighters in His-
Vg v
tory of the Pugilistic Game,
By James J. Corbett.
REQUENTLY I have been aslged:
F “What was the outstanding
s feature of Joe Gans’ greatness?”
And the answer is+-brains and eag
erness to learn
s g ssed § every minute des
A @ 7 tail concerning his
& W ?orofession, i
.. B! The negro pers
g :**) haps was one of
L & 'jithe greatest stup
A " . dlidents of pugilism
#»( in the history of
%;, i %3 ]the ring; a young
;’-: O ster who was a
o )i?;a:"? master even be
penmmnmnnenined 1076 -he reached
the absolute crest of his career, but
who always felt that there was somie
thing more to be learned. And he
never overlooked an opportunity. tp
imitate or perfect any ring tricks
which other warriors were using ,‘rifih
success. He was ever on the lookout
for somcthing new--ever ready to
adopt it if it seemed worth while.
Gans, 1n this respect, should be an
example for many of the present day
youngsters, A lot of them, after be
coming fairly clever, fall into a
satisfied condition, They think
know about all there is to be known.
They no longer progress—they stand
still. And eventually they coma ito
realize that somebody else has been
awinke to the change while they had
been asleep. But usually it is too
late. ~ -
Benny Leonard is llke Gans in'His
eanerness to acquire new trickal;':!"}la
willingness to learn from others .Q d
that very fact will continue Bemjyflh
pugilistic cupremacy for years-.to
come, The yoathful king of "the
lightweight division ranks today' ‘as
one of the cleverest fighters that any
division of boxing ever has produckd.
Most youngsters so placed would, fée)
that they know all there is to krotw.
But not Leonard. He is ambitious—
ever wanting to perfect himself more
and more, £ 8s
. Brains “Made” Gans. "y
Gans had wonderful natural fighting
ability, a splendid physique, great
speed, a terrific punch and powers ta
stand up under punishment. But, it
’wzm the brains of Gans, ever alert,.
that made it possible for him tosrise
‘frnm obscurity to the dominathg
beights In _the lightweight division—
‘and to remain there for years. .
~ An illustration of how Gans uséd
nis brains is shown here: ’
~ Gans once was pitted against a
fighter who was of the “cover-up”
type, continually keeping hands ahd
eihows protecting his jaw. (lans flmj
ing that it was not possible to rf"flqp
the jaw of his foe ‘with g solid whl
lop, opened an attack on the stomaeh
‘and heart. But the foeman of Gapg
had a body that was imnervioug ltn
the most furious bombardment. ‘o
~ Unable to knock out his é)mvrmf"lt
with body blows and unable’to reach
‘his jaw with a direct punch, the keen
'brain of Gans mapped out a plan that
'won him the fight via the knockout
route. And this is how he did it: -
Gans, noting that his rival kent his
‘lel’l hand close to the point of hig
chin, drew back and then almed a
mighty rirht for the left hand of the
other man. The blow struck the tars
get and the impact drove the left
hand of Gans’ foeman against his own
‘r-hin 80 hard that he went down—and
completely out;
| Imitates Jim’s Trick.
i In 1900, while training for my first
bout with Jim Jeffries, I had hedd
quarters in Asbury Park, N. J. Gans
and Al Herford, his manager, came
‘down one day so that Joe could wateh
‘me in my workout. I had developed
an uppercut which T used only at ecers
tain times in coming out of a clineh.
My opponent always would have té be
in a certain position before I would
‘use it. It was one of my favorite ring
‘tricks. Yet very few fighters ever
‘had noticed me using it and none had
‘lmitated it up to that time.
The gymnasium in which T was
'working was a small one and the sec+
ond time I used the uppercut I heard
'a chuckle’ Turning around I saw. it
‘was Joe Gans who, great studentynu
‘he was, had been watching my every
‘move and had seen the value of a
trick of that kind at such a time i
fighting.
A few weeks later, Gans met Frank
'Erne in Coney Island. [ sat at the
ringside for that contest and to
surprise saw Joe Gans using g
identical uppercut which had escaped
the observation of many other men—
but not the observation of Joe Gans,
He was a master boxer at the time,
one of the cievarest and most skillful
in the game. He knew more ring
tricks than any other youngster. But
Joe always figured that he could learn
more. He felt that the uppercut . was
a valuable asset and after he had seen
me use it, I learned later that he had
spent many hours during his training
trying it on his sparring partners;
working patiently with it until he had
perfected it. S
So it was all through the ring'da
reer of the great negro. He was ever
on the lookout for something; ever
watchful, ever learning. Is it xamy
wonder that he bhecame the greatest
warrior of his weight and time? o 1
Joe Walcott Now =
Pinboy in Boston
NEW YORK,-Jan. 26.—Joe Walge
w)?‘mP in his prime was known asrt‘%y
“giant killer” and knocked them down
for many years, is now.setfing them §
Walcott, now 45 vears of age, is se
pins in a local bowling alley. 2@‘
his career in the ring Waleott w
welterwelght title, and when there
no more fighters left in that division he
tackled the middies and heavies,
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